Quotes

Good Mother"I had not thought of wishing you a Happy New Year. I desire with all my heart that you spend this year and many more of them very happily."

Good Father"At last I take a little time, my dear Sisters, to wish you all a Happy New Year. I ask God to preserve you in piety and in the good dispositions which he has placed in your heart. Be good and fervent “sicut Angeli Dei.”

Good Mother"Please pray that I may have the necessary resignation, for my body freezes and even seems to become disjointed when the impression of all that I must suffer makes itself felt."

"Since I shall soon be no longer useful and my end draws closer with the years, heaven is the best that I can desire both for myself and for my children. This favor I solicit continually for the living and for the deceased members of my large family. Forgive me for this gift, all of you who are my dearest friends, and believe that I love you and that I shall never cease to love you."

Good Mother"I much prefer a Sister who is flighty and thoughtless to a very pious grouch inclined to much grumbling. The one can be corrected of her defects while the latter seem to increase."

Good Father"Do not rely upon human beings. The best of them only make noise and their enthusiasm even in most difficult times produces nothing but smoke. I have experienced that all is deception here below."